[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick U.D.C.
- Alnwick (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ALRESFORD RURAL DISTRICT. FOR THE YEAR 1913, BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. Gentlemen, 1 have arranged my Annual Report, as usual, under the several headings suggested by the County Medical Officer of Health. (]) Death Rate during the Year. —During 1913 the deaths registered in the District were 71, to which number must be added eight deaths of residents dying out of the District, making a total of 79, and a death rate equal to 10.2 per 1000 of the inhabitants, which is the lowest death rate for several years. This satisfactory record is chiefly due to the diminished death rate of infants under one year of age, the number being at the rate of 30.3 per 1000 nett births compared with an average of 87.72 for the preceding five years. There were no deaths from infantile diarrhoea during the year owing to the autumn not being excessively hot, and therefore one great cause of infant mortality was absent. Eighteen deaths due to notifiable infectious diseases were registered in 1913, two being due to whooping cough and the remaining sixteen to tubercular disease, chiefly of the lungs. (2) The Birth Rate. —The births numbered 132, equal to a birth rate of 17.52 per 1000 of the inhabitants, which is 2.1 per 1000 less than last year. This decrease is to be accounted for by the exodus of young married couples from agricultural districts and by the new-comers being generally past middle life. Fortu- nately, the low birth rate this year has been somewhat counter- balanced by the low infantile mortality.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28801052_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
